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23:59
Minnesota Police Officer Found Not Guilty in Shooting of Philando Castile
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After five days of deliberations, a jury announced that they found a Minnesota police officer not guilty for his deadly shooting of Philando Castile during a traffic stop last July, that gained attention across the United States after his girlfriend began streaming the incident on FacebookLive, according to National Public Radio. Castile, 32, was driving with his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter in the rear of the car when he was pulled over by St. Anthony police Officer Jeronimo Yanez in Falon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota. Yanez, pulled Castile over for an alleged broken tail-light but alerted his police partner in another squad car that Castile resembled a suspect in a...

23:56
Ztable ska erövra hästvärlden – stöttas av ridstjärnorna
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"Vi är galet nöjda".
23:55
Vigor Sörman: “Jag ringde mamma och sa att det här kommer att gå åt helvete”
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Vigor Sörmans företag Splay har gått från ett källarprojekt till ett digitalt mediehus med 80 anställda. Men en sömnlös natt för fyra år var han övertygad om att hela bolaget skulle bli en flopp.

23:54
Larm om brinnande personbil i Hudiksvall – räddningstjänsten på väg till platsen
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Vid 23.38 under fredagskvällen larmades räddningstjänsten till en bilbrand i Sörforsa i Hudiksvalls kommun. När räddningstjänsten kom fram till platsen visade det sig att det rörde sig om ett falsklarm.

23:52
Philando Castile’s Killer Acquitted Despite Forensics That Contradicted His Case
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Philando Castile’s killer, police officer Jeromino Yanez, was acquitted of manslaughter and two counts of dangerous discharge of a firearm on Friday. The case of Castile’s shooting last July in a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota had sparked mass protests after his girlfriend Diamond Reynolds posted a dramatic and wrenching video of the shooting’s aftermath. The video, taken with Reynolds’ 4-year-old daughter in the car, included footage of Castile lying in a puddle of blood after he was struck five times from seven shots.

Castile had informed the officer that he was carrying a firearm, for which he had a permit. Shortly thereafter, Yanez opened fire. In his opening statement, Yanez’s defense attorney claimed that Castile was holding his gun when he was shot.

“He has his hand on the gun,” Engh reportedly said during opening arguments. “The next command is, ‘Don’t pull it out.’ … [Yanez] can’t retreat … But for Mr. Castile’s continuous grip on the handgun, we would not be here.”

The prosecution argued that the 32-year-old school cafeteria supervisor with no violent criminal record was reaching for his driver’s license—as Yanez had instructed—and not his gun when he was shot. The forensic evidence and Reynold’s testimony would both seem to back up the prosecution’s account and rebut the defense’s version. Reynolds testified that he was trying to unbuckle his seatbelt so that he could get out his wallet and driver’s license when he was shot. As the Associated Press reported, this was supported by forensics:

Prosecutor Jeff Paulsen highlighted autopsy evidence in his closing argument, reminding the jury of a bullet wound to what would have been Castile’s trigger finger — and that there was no corresponding bullet damage nor wounds in the area of Castile’s right shorts pocket, where he carried his gun. He also cited testimony from first responders who saw Castile’s gun in his pocket as he was loaded onto a backboard.

The jury—which included ten white jurors and two black jurors—took 27 hours to deliberate and asked to review dashcam footage of the incident along with Reynolds’ harrowing cell phone video.

The Minneapolis StarTribune reported that the jury wasn’t allowed to have additional information it requested, without the judge specifying why:

Jurors asked the court Friday to reread the officer’s testimony in its entirety, their second request ... for statements he made regarding the fatal shooting of Philando Castile.

But Ramsey County District Court Judge William H. Leary III denied the request without elaborating, saying the reasons aren’t “important to share right now.”

As my colleague Leon Neyfakh noted in November when the officer was charged: “Yanez is the first Minnesota officer to be criminally charged in a police-involved death since 2000. In that time, the paper has reported, there have been more than 150 such incidents.”

The city of St. Anthony—for which Yanez worked as an officer—said it would end his employment because “the public will be best served if Officer Yanez is no longer a police officer in our city.” The city promised to offer him “a voluntary separation agreement to help him transition to another career.”

“There has always been a systemic problem in the state of Minnesota, and me thinking, common sense that we would get justice. But nevertheless the system continues to fail black people,” Castile’s mother, Valerie Castile, reportedly told media after the verdict. “I am so disappointed in the state of Minnesota. My son loved Minnesota. He had one tattoo on his body and it was of the Twin Cities. My son loved this city, and the city killed my son and the murderer gets away.”

*Correction, June 16, 2017, at 10:10 p.m: This post originally referred to the Minneapolis Star Tribune as the St. Paul Tribune. It also said Castile was shot in St. Paul rather than a suburb.

23:51
Larm om räddning i Hudiksvall – person fastnade på staty två meter upp i luften
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Vid 23.30 under natten till lördagen larmades SOS av en person som behövde hjälp att ta sig ned från en två meter hög staty i Hudiksvall.

23:46
Analyst: Apple to ship over 40 million iPhones this quarter due to strong interest
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Times are good for Cupertino, as Cowen and Company analyst Timothy Arcuri believes Apple is going to have a big quarter, shipping as many as 41.5 million iPhones. Not only is this an indicator for strong retailer demand of Apple's most financially important product, it would also mark an increase of over one million units shipped from the same quarter last year.

Arcuri, though, is careful to point out that the number of phones actually bought by customers could be going down. Despite this, retailers are as sure as ever in Apple's ability to deliver desirable phones. On the topic of the upcoming ...
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Analyst: Apple to ship over 40 million iPhones this quarter due to strong interest
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Times are good for Cupertino, as Cowen and Company analyst Timothy Arcuri believes Apple is going to have a big quarter, shipping as many as 41.5 million iPhones. Not only is this an indicator for strong retailer demand of Apple's most financially important product, it would also mark an increase of over one million units shipped from the same quarter last year.

Arcuri, though, is careful to point out that the number of phones actually bought by customers could be going down. Despite this, retailers are as sure as ever in Apple's ability to deliver desirable phones. On the topic of the upcoming ...

23:43
T-Mobile Offers BOGO Sale On Its Best-Selling Smartphone Including The Samsung Galaxy S8 And S8 Plus
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Just in time for Father's Day, T-Mobile has announced a Buy one, Get one sale on some of its most popular smartphones. The offer even includes the popular Samsung S8.
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T-Mobile Offers BOGO Sale On Its Best-Selling Smartphone Including The Samsung Galaxy S8 And S8 Plus
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Just in time for Father's Day, T-Mobile has announced a Buy one, Get one sale on some of its most popular smartphones. The offer even includes the popular Samsung S8.

23:37
Can Republicans Actually Pass the AHCA in Two Weeks?
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If Senate Republicans want to meet their goal of passing a health care bill by the Fourth of July recess, they have exactly two weeks to do it. Congress is scheduled to recess at the end of business on June 30, which means Republicans have to move at breakneck pace while keeping debate to a minimum. What’s the rush? For any Americans who are aware that the Senate is racing to pass a tightly guarded health care bill—and if the GOP strategy works, there won’t be many of them!—Republicans are hoping their outrage dissipates over the holiday weekend. And the world goes on.

Passing this secretly developed, still-unfinished bill within two weeks would be a world historic achievement in underhanded policymaking. Put another way: This is the moment Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was born for. This, reader, is his jam.

Ask a different member of the Senate Republican leadership whether they are sticking to the June 30 deadline, and you’ll get a different answer. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, the No. 2 Republican, has always been more of an “end of July” guy. South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the No. 3 Republican, treats it as more of a “hope” or an “aspiration,” a way of focusing the mind.

McConnell and his team, though, have not been “deterred… from the goal of a floor vote before the July 4 recess,” the Washington Post reports. “[A]s McConnell’s team sees it, the options have all been vetted. Now, the difficult decisions about what to put in and leave out of the final bill are all that remain.”

Much of the media has been operating under the assumption that the Congressional Budget Office would need two weeks to score the Senate’s legislation. That’s why senators were hoping to finalize the language by Monday night. It’s now Friday, and the language still isn’t finalized. But the CBO and Senate Republicans have been interfacing on legislative options for a while now, and leaders hope that the score could come quicker since CBO wouldn’t be building an analysis from scratch. As Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso told Talking Points Memo, the issues they’re dealing with are “dial-able… so you can say, ‘If you set this number, it does this and if you set that number, it does that.’ ” In other words, the CBO is just waiting for decisions on certain inputs—growth rates for Medicaid spending, the length of the Medicaid expansion phase-out, expiration dates for certain taxes, lists of regulatory waivers that will be available to states, and so forth. Perhaps CBO could get a score done in, say, one week.

So who’s going to make those tough decisions about which inputs to include? It’s definitely not going to be all the Republican senators, and there’s definitely not going to be anything like consensus reached. Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey and Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, for example, are never going to agree about the proper growth rate for Medicaid. It will be up to McConnell and Cornyn to choose the proper balance that gets their conference closest to the 50 votes they need to pass the bill. That’s the phase they appear to be in right now. On the Hill Thursday afternoon, individual senators like Portman, Toomey, and Maine Sen. Susan Collins were ducking into McConnell’s office. The brainstorming sessions are finished, and now it’s about determining what each senator can live with.

Now, what about the Democrats? Let’s be generous and say McConnell settles on a recipe by over the weekend, and the CBO begins scoring early next week. The score comes back early the following week, and McConnell posts the bill. Is there much Democrats can do to stop it?

One theory among progressive activists is that Democrats could leverage the “vote-o-rama” process. Under reconciliation rules, senators can offer an unlimited number of amendments during the 20-hour debate period; after the debate, each filed amendment would be considered with an up-or-down vote. That rapid-fire voting session is referred to as a “vote-o-rama.”

Ezra Levin, an executive director with Indivisible, suggested on Twitter this week that Democrats should extend the “vote-o-rama” well past a long night’s work. He urged Democrats to threaten to “filibuster by amendment,” by filing tens of thousands of amendments to clog up chamber through the 2018 midterms.

But McConnell would have recourse. Though McConnell could let Democrats have their fun for a little while—at least to give off the veneer of a transparent, open process—he can eventually motion that the amendment process had become dilatory, the chair would rule in his favor, and—barring some appeals and other motions to draw the process out—the “vote-o-rama” would be finished. It might still be worth Democrats’ while to push ahead this way, though, to see how long they can draw out the process before McConnell breaks, and to please their base.

It comes down to this: If McConnell and a majority of senators want to rush this secret bill to a vote before the Fourth of July recess, then they can. McConnell needs 50 votes for the bill, and he needs 50 votes to bust through whatever procedural roadblocks Democrats lay before him.

Some Republican senators have begun to speak out against the secrecy of the project, noting that it makes them uncomfortable. That discomfort, however, has not been palpable enough for them to exert real leverage over the way McConnell has conducted the process so far. Any three Republican senators could have told the majority leader in early May that they wouldn’t vote for the bill unless it went through the normal open committee process. Maybe they didn’t think it would get this bad. Or maybe they agree with him: Speed and secrecy is the only way to do this.

23:32
What's New in macOS High Sierra: APFS, Metal 2, Photos Improvements, Safari Autoplay Blocking and More
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Apple named its next-generation version of the Mac operating system High Sierra because it's designed to improve macOS Sierra through several major under-the-hood updates. While most of what's in High Sierra isn't outwardly visible, there are some refinements to existing features and apps like Safari, Photos, Siri, FaceTime, and more.

We went hands-on with the High Sierra beta to give MacRumors readers a quick idea of what changes and improvements to expect when the software comes out this fall. Check out the video below to see what's new.

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Some of the biggest app changes are in Photos, which has a persistent side bar, editing tools for Curves and Selective Color, new filters, options for editing Live Photos, new Memories categories, improved third-party app integration, and improvements to facial recognition, with the People album now synced across all of your devices.

Safari is gaining a new autoplay blocking feature for videos, Intelligent Tracking Prevention to protect your privacy, and options for customizing your browsing experience site-by-site, while Mail improvements mean your messages take up 35 percent less storage space.

Siri has a more natural voice, just like on iOS 11, and can answer more music-related queries. iCloud Drive file sharing has been added, and in High Sierra and iOS 11, all of your iMessage conversations are saved in iCloud, saving more storage space.

When installing High Sierra, it will convert to a new, more modern file system called Apple File System or APFS. APFS is safe, secure, and optimized for modern storage systems like solid-state drives. Features like native encryption, crash protection, and safe document saves are built in, plus it is ultra responsive and will bring performance enhancements to Mac.

APFS is accompanied by High Efficiency Video Encoding (HEVC) which introduces much better video compression compared to H.264 without sacrificing quality. The other major under-the-hood update is Metal 2, which will bring smoother animations to macOS and will provide developers with tools to create incredible apps and games.

Metal 2 includes support for machine learning, external GPUs, and VR content creation, with Apple even providing an external GPU development kit for developers so they can get their apps ready for eGPU support that's coming to consumers this fall. Apple is also working with Valve, Unity, and Unreal to bring VR creation tools to the Mac.

macOS High Sierra will run on all Macs that are capable of running macOS Sierra. For a more detailed overview of what's included in the update, make sure to check out our macOS High Sierra roundup.

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What's New in macOS High Sierra: APFS, Metal 2, Photos Improvements, Safari Autoplay Blocking and More
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Apple named its next-generation version of the Mac operating system High Sierra because it's designed to improve macOS Sierra through several major under-the-hood updates. While most of what's in High Sierra isn't outwardly visible, there are some refinements to existing features and apps like Safari, Photos, Siri, FaceTime, and more.

We went hands-on with the High Sierra beta to give MacRumors readers a quick idea of what changes and improvements to expect when the software comes out this fall. Check out the video below to see what's new.

Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos.
Some of the biggest app changes are in Photos, which has a persistent side bar, editing tools for Curves and Selective Color, new filters, options for editing Live Photos, new Memories categories, improved third-party app integration, and improvements to facial recognition, with the People album now synced across all of your devices.

Safari is gaining a new autoplay blocking feature for videos, Intelligent Tracking Prevention to protect your privacy, and options for customizing your browsing experience site-by-site, while Mail improvements mean your messages take up 35 percent less storage space.

Siri has a more natural voice, just like on iOS 11, and can answer more music-related queries. iCloud Drive file sharing has been added, and in High Sierra and iOS 11, all of your iMessage conversations are saved in iCloud, saving more storage space.

When installing High Sierra, it will convert to a new, more modern file system called Apple File System or APFS. APFS is safe, secure, and optimized for modern storage systems like solid-state drives. Features like native encryption, crash protection, and safe document saves are built in, plus it is ultra responsive and will bring performance enhancements to Mac.

APFS is accompanied by High Efficiency Video Encoding (HEVC) which introduces much better video compression compared to H.264 without sacrificing quality. The other major under-the-hood update is Metal 2, which will bring smoother animations to macOS and will provide developers with tools to create incredible apps and games.

Metal 2 includes support for machine learning, external GPUs, and VR content creation, with Apple even providing an external GPU development kit for developers so they can get their apps ready for eGPU support that's coming to consumers this fall. Apple is also working with Valve, Unity, and Unreal to bring VR creation tools to the Mac.

macOS High Sierra will run on all Macs that are capable of running macOS Sierra. For a more detailed overview of what's included in the update, make sure to check out our macOS High Sierra roundup.

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23:27
The Angle: Latest Bae Edition
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Irreversible: President Trump’s opportunity to fill a large number of judicial vacancies (thanks, Senate Republicans) is going to let him transform the federal bench for years to come. Dahlia Lithwick looks at three of his first nominees, finding them horrifying: “The decision seems to have been made that these jobs should go to polemicists and bomb-throwers, performance artist lawyers who have spent their intellectual lives staking out absurd and often abhorrent legal positions.”

Here he comes: Mark Joseph Stern wonders what Robert Mueller, who is now looking into the business dealings of Trump’s associates, will find. “We still know little about what potential misconduct investigators are scrutinizing,” Stern writes. “But we know nothing they find is liable to be good news for Trump.”

Let her speak: Interrupted Sen. Kamala Harris is the liberal hero of the day. But Katy Waldman wonders whether some Democrats celebrating her would really support her for higher office, given her middle-of-the-road record on crime and punishment.

The long view: What is Amazon doing buying Whole Foods? Figuring out ways to make you pick up your own purchases, Daniel Gross theorizes. Cementing its place as the comprehensive go-to for all your shopping needs, Will Oremus thinks.

For fun: Watch Sigourney Weaver fight an alien invasion in a short film by Neill Blomkamp.

She’s good at that,

Rebecca

23:23
Latest OxygenOS Open Beta for OnePlus 3 and 3T is all about bug fixes
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One would think that having an important announcement such as the launch of a flagship smartphone in just a few days, will prevent OnePlus from focusing on any other activities that will consume resource of any kind.

When it comes to software updates for its high-end OnePlus 3 and 3T, the Chinese company is almost relentless. We reported earlier this week about an important update that was released by OnePlus, and now it looks like another one is making its way to both smartphones.

However, unlike the previous update that brought a couple of new features ...
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Latest OxygenOS Open Beta for OnePlus 3 and 3T is all about bug fixes
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One would think that having an important announcement such as the launch of a flagship smartphone in just a few days, will prevent OnePlus from focusing on any other activities that will consume resource of any kind.

When it comes to software updates for its high-end OnePlus 3 and 3T, the Chinese company is almost relentless. We reported earlier this week about an important update that was released by OnePlus, and now it looks like another one is making its way to both smartphones.

However, unlike the previous update that brought a couple of new features ...

23:15
7 Shows You Need to Watch on Netflix Now
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They say we are living in the golden age of television…and it’s certainly easy to see why. The content available to us is endless, and now it can appear in mere seconds if […]

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7 Shows You Need to Watch on Netflix Now
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They say we are living in the golden age of television…and it’s certainly easy to see why. The content available to us is endless, and now it can appear in mere seconds if […]

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23:05
Upcoming Apple Pay shopping event in San Francisco offers discounts for iPhone-based mobile payments
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Apple is holding an event in San Francisco next weekend to promote the use of Apple Pay in stores and restaurants, with a number of merchants in two popular shopping areas offering exclusive discounts for customers using Apple's mobile payment platform to pay for goods and services.
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Upcoming Apple Pay shopping event in San Francisco offers discounts for iPhone-based mobile payments
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Apple is holding an event in San Francisco next weekend to promote the use of Apple Pay in stores and restaurants, with a number of merchants in two popular shopping areas offering exclusive discounts for customers using Apple's mobile payment platform to pay for goods and services.

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TV: Full fart på Strömpis – se örebroarna dansa på borden på allsången
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Under fredagskvällen var det full fart på den populära allsången på Villa Strömpis. NA gick dit för att spana in stämningen. Den visade sig vara på topp.
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TV: Full fart på Strömpis – se örebroarna dansa på borden på allsången
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Under fredagskvällen var det full fart på den populära allsången på Villa Strömpis. NA gick dit för att spana in stämningen. Den visade sig vara på topp.

22:55
Cloud security services will be a $5.9bn market in 2017
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Cloud-based security services saw a huge increase during the last 12 months, according to the latest figures from Gartner. In a new report, Gartner says cloud-based security services will reach $5.9 billion this year, representing a 21 percent growth compared to the year before. Overall growth for the cloud-based security services are outpacing the total information security market and by 2020, Gartner believes cloud-based will hit $9 billion. The driving force behind this immense growth are small and medium-sized businesses (SMB). They are becoming increasingly aware of security threats and are willing to invest more to protect themselves. They also see cloud deployments… [Continue Reading]
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Cloud security services will be a $5.9bn market in 2017
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Cloud-based security services saw a huge increase during the last 12 months, according to the latest figures from Gartner. In a new report, Gartner says cloud-based security services will reach $5.9 billion this year, representing a 21 percent growth compared to the year before. Overall growth for the cloud-based security services are outpacing the total information security market and by 2020, Gartner believes cloud-based will hit $9 billion. The driving force behind this immense growth are small and medium-sized businesses (SMB). They are becoming increasingly aware of security threats and are willing to invest more to protect themselves. They also see cloud deployments… [Continue Reading]

22:53
Biologic-Naive Respond Better to TNF Combination in RA
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US clinical practice data confirm that combination therapy with TNF inhibitors improves rheumatoid arthritis response compared with monotherapy; however, treatment history makes a difference.
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Biologic-Naive Respond Better to TNF Combination in RA
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US clinical practice data confirm that combination therapy with TNF inhibitors improves rheumatoid arthritis response compared with monotherapy; however, treatment history makes a difference.
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22:43
Nintendo's New Lineup Electrifies E3
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Nintendo previewed an impressive lineup of gaming content at E3 2017 this week, by many accounts. Its collection of new titles and targeted versions of some of the industry's hottest third-party content seemed to validate surprisingly strong sales of the Nintendo Switch console. Moving easily from a living room big screen to a mobile gaming device, the Switch already has gained a significant following. Nintendo unveiled a stream of new titles from some of its most renowned video game franchises, while adding new games that are designed to work specifically for the Switch, which offers a unique gaming experience.
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Nintendo's New Lineup Electrifies E3
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Nintendo previewed an impressive lineup of gaming content at E3 2017 this week, by many accounts. Its collection of new titles and targeted versions of some of the industry's hottest third-party content seemed to validate surprisingly strong sales of the Nintendo Switch console. Moving easily from a living room big screen to a mobile gaming device, the Switch already has gained a significant following. Nintendo unveiled a stream of new titles from some of its most renowned video game franchises, while adding new games that are designed to work specifically for the Switch, which offers a unique gaming experience.

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35-årig man misstänkt för drograttfylleri
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22:41
Apple Hires Sony's Jamie Erlicht And Zach Van Amburg To Produce Original Content For Apple TV, Should Netflix Be Worried?
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Apple has expanded its plans to take on Netflix in the streaming business by bringing two seasoned TV veterans to produce original content. Can Jamie Erlicht and Zach Van Amburg help Apple take on Netflix?
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Apple Hires Sony's Jamie Erlicht And Zach Van Amburg To Produce Original Content For Apple TV, Should Netflix Be Worried?
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Apple has expanded its plans to take on Netflix in the streaming business by bringing two seasoned TV veterans to produce original content. Can Jamie Erlicht and Zach Van Amburg help Apple take on Netflix?

22:39
Pentagon Announces Thousands More US Troops Will Be Sent to Afghanistan
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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis could announce the official plan to send additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan sometime next week for a potential 3,000-5,000 troops, according to CBS News. Earlier this week, President Donald Trump gave Mattis the authority to set troop levels to help address concerns from the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan that there aren't enough forces to help Afghanistan's army against a growing Taliban insurgency. There has been an increase in deadly attacks in the city of Kabul from the extremists that has fueled calls for a stronger U.S. presence. The majority of the additional troops will help train and advise Afghan forces, but a smaller number would be assigned to...

22:34
U.S. Cellular offers free iPhone 7 to switchers and promotions for current subscribers
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U.S. Celullar needs some subscribers, so it's organized a promotion to the taste of many. The budget-oriented carrier offers a free iPhone 7 to customers who switch and bring a working, qualifying phone in healthy condition. Examples of phones you can trade in include the iPhone 5s and the Samsung Galaxy S6.

The carrier will cover the cost of the new iPhone by issuing 30 monthly bill credits worth $18.28/mo, in addition to a $100 US Cellular promo card. Moreover, current U.S. Cellular customers can buy a 9.7-inch iPad Pro and have $200 taken off of any new iPhone they upgrade to.

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U.S. Cellular offers free iPhone 7 to switchers and promotions for current subscribers
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U.S. Celullar needs some subscribers, so it's organized a promotion to the taste of many. The budget-oriented carrier offers a free iPhone 7 to customers who switch and bring a working, qualifying phone in healthy condition. Examples of phones you can trade in include the iPhone 5s and the Samsung Galaxy S6.

The carrier will cover the cost of the new iPhone by issuing 30 monthly bill credits worth $18.28/mo, in addition to a $100 US Cellular promo card. Moreover, current U.S. Cellular customers can buy a 9.7-inch iPad Pro and have $200 taken off of any new iPhone they upgrade to.

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22:30
Here’s Some Weird Stuff Roger Stone Said at a Weed Conference
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Stone is growing his own marijuana strain, and it's named "Tricky Dick." We're not joking.

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Here’s Some Weird Stuff Roger Stone Said at a Weed Conference
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Stone is growing his own marijuana strain, and it's named "Tricky Dick." We're not joking.

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22:29
Texting Suicide Case Is an Old Crime By New Means
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Michelle Carter has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for pressuring her boyfriend to kill himself via text. Here's what it means for free speech online and off.

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Value-Based Purchasing Program Has Little Effect
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Disappointing 4-year results for Medicare's Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program suggest the program's complex design or small incentives may be hindering its effects.
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Value-Based Purchasing Program Has Little Effect
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Disappointing 4-year results for Medicare's Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program suggest the program's complex design or small incentives may be hindering its effects.
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22:27
Motorola Moto C Plus to be unveiled in India on June 19th
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Motorola has turned into the bunny rabbits of the handset industry, popping out new phones every so often. Back on June 2nd, Motorola launched the Moto C in India. This low-end model is priced at the equivalent of $94 USD, making it the cheapest smartphone ever released by the manufacturer.. At the time that the Moto C was being introduced, the Moto C Plus was not. This will change on June 19th when the device is unveiled.

According to a Moto C Plus teaser, the phone will be found exclusively at Indian on-line retailer Flipkart. The handset will carry a 5-inch display with a 720 x 1280 ...
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Motorola Moto C Plus to be unveiled in India on June 19th
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Motorola has turned into the bunny rabbits of the handset industry, popping out new phones every so often. Back on June 2nd, Motorola launched the Moto C in India. This low-end model is priced at the equivalent of $94 USD, making it the cheapest smartphone ever released by the manufacturer.. At the time that the Moto C was being introduced, the Moto C Plus was not. This will change on June 19th when the device is unveiled.

According to a Moto C Plus teaser, the phone will be found exclusively at Indian on-line retailer Flipkart. The handset will carry a 5-inch display with a 720 x 1280 ...

22:24
Markbrand i Geta – troligen anlagd
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Vid 18-tiden på fredagskvällen inkom ett larm om en mindre markbrand i närheten av Geta skola. Branden var liten men eftersom en större skog fanns i närheten av platsen var det ändå risk för spridning.
– Det fanns ingen naturlig orsak till branden, säger räddningschef Thomas Mattson.
Det var två flickor som lekte vid skolan som såg branden och slog larm. Geta FBK stod för släckningsarbetet. (fb)
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Markbrand i Geta – troligen anlagd
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Vid 18-tiden på fredagskvällen inkom ett larm om en mindre markbrand i närheten av Geta skola. Branden var liten men eftersom en större skog fanns i närheten av platsen var det ändå risk för spridning.
– Det fanns ingen naturlig orsak till branden, säger räddningschef Thomas Mattson.
Det var två flickor som lekte vid skolan som såg branden och slog larm. Geta FBK stod för släckningsarbetet. (fb)
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Trafikolycka i Lumparland
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På fredagskvällen inträffade en singelolycka på Svinövägen i Lumparland. En paketbil körde av vägen och träffade en stolpe. Föraren fördes till sjukhus. Polisen utreder händelsen. (fb)
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Trafikolycka i Lumparland
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På fredagskvällen inträffade en singelolycka på Svinövägen i Lumparland. En paketbil körde av vägen och träffade en stolpe. Föraren fördes till sjukhus. Polisen utreder händelsen. (fb)

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Jihadister finansierar terror med annonsintäkter
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TERRORFINANSIERING. Många svenska företag använder Googles annonsnätverk i sin marknadsföring. Men bristande kontroll över annonsernas exponering gör att jihadister kan annonsera för att finansiera terrorverksamhet. ”Snart ödeläggs en vänskap”, lyder en annonstext som får en helt annan innebörd när den visas på jihadistsajten.

Den tidigare Göteborgaren och jihadisten Michael Skråmo använder annonsintäkter på en sajt där han ger sitt stöd för Islamiska Staten. Till sin hjälp har han Googles annonsnätverk där många svenska företag väljer att marknadsföra sina produkter. Men bristande kontroll över annonsernas exponering möjliggör finansiering av olaglig verksamhet.

Företaget Storytel.se hamnade oönskat på jihadistsajten. Det var inte vad de hade tänkt sig.

När Samtiden besöker sidan visas en annons från företaget Storytel.se som tillhandahåller ljudböcker i mobiltelefonen. Annonsen med texten ”Snart ödeläggs en vänskap”, får en helt annan betydelse i sammanhanget. Storytel är dock ovetandes om att deras annonser visas på detta sätt.

– Det här är baksidan av att ingå i stora annonsnätverk, olyckligtvis hamnar vi precis som många andra stora företag ibland på den här typen av sajter vilket förstås är helt emot vår avsikt, säger Tiina Nevala, PR-ansvarig på Storytel.

– Det är ju absolut inte ett sammanhang där vi vill synas.

Nu ska företaget försöka plocka bort annonsen från sidan.

– Vi kommer att undersöka om annonsen går att blockera och göra det om möjligt, säger hon.

Samtiden har sökt Google Sverige för en kommentar.

Inlägget Jihadister finansierar terror med annonsintäkter dök först upp på Samtiden.

22:19
Latest Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Leaks: Front Panel, 8GB RAM Version, Benchmarks And More
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Samsung Galaxy Note 8 leaks keep piling up and the latest ones reveal benchmark results, a purported variant with 8 GB of RAM, the device's front panel, and more. Here's a roundup of the latest Galaxy Note 8 rumors.
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Latest Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Leaks: Front Panel, 8GB RAM Version, Benchmarks And More
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Samsung Galaxy Note 8 leaks keep piling up and the latest ones reveal benchmark results, a purported variant with 8 GB of RAM, the device's front panel, and more. Here's a roundup of the latest Galaxy Note 8 rumors.
22:09
Did The iPad Copy The Surface Pro? Microsoft Thinks It Did
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The war between Apple and Microsoft appears to be heating up. Microsoft's Ryan Gavin said that Apple copied Microsoft when it released the iPad Pro.
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Did The iPad Copy The Surface Pro? Microsoft Thinks It Did
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The war between Apple and Microsoft appears to be heating up. Microsoft's Ryan Gavin said that Apple copied Microsoft when it released the iPad Pro.

22:00
Marketing Day: AMP for WordPress, Google My Business & Amazon buys Whole Foods
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Here's our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.

Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.
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Marketing Day: AMP for WordPress, Google My Business & Amazon buys Whole Foods
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Here's our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.

Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.

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Marketing Day: AMP for WordPress, Google My Business & Amazon buys Whole Foods
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Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.
From Marketing Land:
- Setting up and testing AMP for WordPress: A quick 7-step guide
  Jun 16, 2017 by Stephanie LeVonne
  Looking to get started with Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)? Columnist Stephanie LeVonne has put together this handy guide for WordPress users.
- Using email to curate one-to-one relationships with customers
  Jun 16, 2017 by Scott Heimes
  Columnist Scott Heimes believes marketers need to choose the right marketing technology to help them leverage data that will deliver personalized experiences to customers through email.
- Dear Google: 4 suggestions for fixing your massive problem with fake reviews
  Jun 16, 2017 by Joy Hawkins
  Columnist and local search expert Joy Hawkins notes that unless Google My Business gets serious about addressing fake reviews, it will suffer a loss of credibility. Here are her suggestions for tackling this ongoing issue.
- Amazon buying Whole Foods for nearly $14 billion. What now?
  Jun 16, 2017 by Greg Sterling
  The company has an intriguing range of options now available with 400+ stores.
- Long-form video content hits milestone, makes up majority of time watched across all devices
  Jun 16, 2017 by Amy Gesenhues
  Ooyala says Q1 2017 was the first time long-form video content won the most watch-time across TVs, PCs and mobile devices.
- Lotame and Cint marry survey panel data with DMP data
  Jun 16, 2017 by Barry Levine
  The result is verification of inferred DMP data, enriching user profiles for more focused ad targeting and inventory marketing.
- Watson mans the first cognitive ad for cars
  Jun 16, 2017 by Barry Levine
  On the IBM-owned Weather.com site, the supercomputer is fielding questions about the Prius Prime like an expert.
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
- The Comprehensive Guide to Content Marketing Analytics and Metrics, MarTech Advisor
Business Issues
- Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg joining Apple, Apple
Content Marketing
- 7 Content Marketing Must-Haves for Healthcare Marketers, Top Rank Marketing Blog
- Headless, Static or Dynamic Content Delivery? Try ‘All of the Above’, CMS Wire
- How to Use Events for Evergreen Content Creation, Duct Tape Marketing
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- 5 Persuasive Sales Copy Tactics & Why They Work, Search Engine Journal
- How to Avoid 6 Common Web Design Mistakes, Search Engine Journal
Domaining
- Forget emojis, you can buy Egyptian hieroglyph .com domains, Domain Incite
- US “threatens” Costa Rica over Pirate Bay domains, Domain Incite
E-Commerce
- 5 Takeaways from E-Commerce’s Biggest Conference, MailChimp Blog
- Amazon, now a physical retailer too, is granted an anti-showrooming patent, TechCrunch
- Protecting Your Intellectual Property on Amazon: Brand Registry 2.0, Search Engine Journal
Email Marketing
- 5 Companies That Are Winning with Social Data and Email Marketing, The Blog Herald
General Internet Marketing
- 4 Steps to Resisting Shiny-New Marketing Channel Syndrome and FOMO, MarketingProfs
- Engagement on New Marketing Channels: A Double-Edged Sword, MarTech Advisor
- How To Do Cause Marketing Right With Influencers, MediaKix
- Micro-influencers: How to find the right fit for your brand, Econsultancy
- Performance Marketing Trends: Driving Conversations in the Digital Age, MarTech Advisor
Internet Marketing Industry
- Tubular Labs Announces DealMaker, Business Wire
- Introducing Landing Pages, VerticalResponse
MarTech
- “An ad tech urban legend”: An oral history of how header bidding became digital advertising’s hottest buzzword, Digiday
- Industry Insiders Warn Of An Ad Tech Brain Drain, AdExchanger
Mobile/Local Marketing
- Study: Apple update increases app reviews by 15%, Mobile Marketer
- There are now five billion mobile subscribers in the world. Where can operators find the next billion?, Quartz
Reputation Management
- Why publishers need to protect their reputations in the age of server-to-server, Digiday
Social Media
- Asia Pacific News Literacy Group identifies first round of projects to fund under Facebook Journalism Project, Facebook Media
- Facebook’s working with publishers on paid subscriptions, Digiday
- Growing Your Medical Practice, Part 1: Why Is Facebook Important to Your Practice?, Search Influence
- Hard Questions: How We Counter Terrorism, Facebook Newsroom
- How Facebook Instant Articles Can Win Back Publishers, AdExchanger
- Insta-famous: 4 quick tips on how to build your brand’s Instagram profile, MarketingSherpa Blog
- Revealed: Facebook exposed identities of moderators to suspected terrorists, The Guardian
- Using Facebook for B2B Lead Generation, AdAge
- What Social Marketers Need to Know From the 2017 Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report, Simply Measured
Video
- 25 Percent of Marketers are Investing in Video Ads on Instagram and Twitter, Small Biz Trends
- Hot and Cold: Heatmaps in VR, YouTube Creator Blog
- How Video Can Compel Action for Advocacy Campaigns, Overit Blog
- Social Video Continues to Emerge as a Critical Form of Marketing Content, KoMarketing
- Why Live Events Should Be At The Center Of Your Marketing Strategy, Jeff Bullas

22:00
Låt förnuftet gå före juridiken
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Hallå, kyrkopolitiker i Stora Kils pastorat!
Hur går era tankar när ni ser en så vanvårdad gravplats som den här (bilden) på Stora Kils vackra kyrkogård på sluttningen ner mot Fryken?
Ska man nödvändigtvis, som kyrkogårdsansvariga hävdar, behöva avvakta ett svar från ett totalt ointresserat dödsbo, innan en juridisk process kan inledas för att få ett rättsligt beslut om vanvård och därav följande tvångsförvaltning?
Eller finns det utrymme för lite sunt förnuft, och i avvaktan på processandet offra några minuter på gräsklippning, så att alla hundratals besökare till närliggande gravplatser slipper se eländet vecka efter vecka, månad efter månad, år efter år…
För så illa är det! Den här gravplatsen har inte varit ordentligt skött på åratal även om det inte brukar se lika eländigt ut som nu.
Jag tror inte att den politiker, som vänligt men bestämt beordrar uppsnyggning av gravplatsen i avvaktan på processandet, riskerar efterräkningar för ministerstyre.
Ingen behöver betvivla utgången av processen. Så vad allt handlar om, är att för omgivningens bästa, låta förnuftet råda och förekomma det juridiska utslaget.

21:57
U.S. to Send 4,000 More Troops to Afghanistan, Associated Press Reports
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The Pentagon plans to deploy 4,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, a Trump administration official has told the Associated Press:

The decision by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis could be announced as early as next week, the official said. It follows Trump’s move to give Mattis the authority to set troop levels and seeks to address assertions by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan that he doesn’t have enough forces to help Afghanistan’s army against a resurgent Taliban insurgency. The rising threat posed by Islamic State extremists, evidenced in a rash of deadly attacks in the capital city of Kabul, has only fueled calls for a stronger U.S. presence, as have several recent American combat deaths.

The bulk of the additional troops will train and advise Afghan forces, according to the administration official, who wasn’t authorized to discuss details of the decision publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. A smaller number would be assigned to counterterror operations against the Taliban and IS, the official said.

A Pentagon spokesman told the AP that no final decision has been made. The AP says there are currently at least 10,400 U.S. troops already in the country, including at least 2,000 not included in the official 8,400 troop cap imposed by the Obama administration. That 2,000, the AP’s Lolita Baldor and Robert Burns write, includes “forces that are technically considered temporary even if they’ve been in the war zone for months.”

On Thursday, Slate’s Fred Kaplan wrote about the folly of letting Mattis set the administration’s Afghanistan strategy and predicted that more troops were on the way:

Mattis was an excellent wartime commander as a Marine. He is well-read in history and philosophy. But even the best Marines are trained mainly to execute policy, not to make it. And to the best wartime generals, the mandate of carrying out policy means winning the war. Retreating, withdrawing, drawing down—these might (or might not) be the preferences of a president, who views a war’s costs and benefits in the context of many other priorities, but they have little place in the thinking of a general whose job is to focus only on the war. ...

In other words, by turning over his authority to Mattis, Trump has all but guaranteed that more American troops will soon be sent to Afghanistan. Senior officers in the Pentagon have reportedly asked for another 5,000 troops in addition to the 8,000 still there. It’s a fair bet that Mattis will endorse the request. And it’s also a fair bet that they won’t be the last American troops sent over.

Slate contributor Phillip Carter recommended in May that the administration pursue a “minimalist counterterrorism strategy” in keeping with its America First rhetoric and noted a dissonance between that rhetoric and the blanket authority Trump has proved willing to give the Pentagon. “This dissonance may reflect a split of opinion between Trump and his political aides, and the military leaders he’s picked to run his Pentagon and National Security Council,” he wrote. “If he could restrain his penchant for dishonesty and misinformation, he might accidentally articulate the true goals and costs of our continued war in Afghanistan. But without a president who can level with his administration and the American people, the forever war will grind on, consuming lives and dollars for more years to come, with no end in sight and no way to judge whether it has all been worth it.”

21:54
Hands-on: $499 gesture-controlled DJI Spark drone offers portability, simplicity
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The first DJI Spark orders are now on their way to customers, and AppleInsider offers a first look at what comes in the box with the diminutive new gesture-controlled flying camera, which aims to make it simpler than ever to fly a drone.
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Hands-on: $499 gesture-controlled DJI Spark drone offers portability, simplicity
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The first DJI Spark orders are now on their way to customers, and AppleInsider offers a first look at what comes in the box with the diminutive new gesture-controlled flying camera, which aims to make it simpler than ever to fly a drone.

21:53
Samsung debuts Bixby early access program in the U.S.
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Samsung is still trying to bring the full Bixby experience to users outside its home turf, but things don't seem to be working well for the South Korean company. Reports coming from the international media claim Bixby is having trouble comprehending English syntax and grammar.

Because of that, Samsung won't be able to launch English-language Bixby in the United States until late June, the same reports say. Until then, Galaxy S8 and S8+ owners in the U.S. are given the option to try out Bixby before the digital assistant gets released in the country.

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Samsung debuts Bixby early access program in the U.S.
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Samsung is still trying to bring the full Bixby experience to users outside its home turf, but things don't seem to be working well for the South Korean company. Reports coming from the international media claim Bixby is having trouble comprehending English syntax and grammar.

Because of that, Samsung won't be able to launch English-language Bixby in the United States until late June, the same reports say. Until then, Galaxy S8 and S8+ owners in the U.S. are given the option to try out Bixby before the digital assistant gets released in the country.

Samsung ...

21:53
Netflix Decides to Join the Net Neutrality Fight After All
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On Thursday, Netflix reversed course and announced its support for the Net Neutrality Day of Action on its Twitter account:

Only two weeks ago, Netflix had seemingly decided to leave the net neutrality fight behind. At Recode’s Code Conference, CEO Reed Hastings said that net neutrality—the principle that prevents internet service providers such as Comcast and Verizon from slowing down certain websites and prioritizing others—was not its “primary battle” at the moment, adding that Netflix can “get the deals we want” and that it’s up to other companies, such as Amazon and Mozilla, to continue the fight.

In May, the Trump administration’s Federal Communications Commission voted to roll back regulations put in place by the Obama administration to protect net neutrality. The July 12 day of action will bring together multiple companies to “sound the alarm about the FCC’s attack on net neutrality,” according to organizer Fight for the Future’s website.

This choice to participate in the protest is more in line with the Netflix of past. In 2012, Hastings called out Comcast, a company he would later partner with, for its use of data caps against his video-streaming behemoth. In 2014, Netflix helped lead a coalition, which included eBay and Facebook, to lend support to net neutrality, and it took part in the September 2014 Internet Slowdown Day protest, where companies had symbolic loading symbols on their sites to show what might happen if net neutrality protections were erased.

But it’s also not the first time Netflix has sent conflicting messages about its stance on net neutrality. In 2014, Netflix made a deal with Comcast, a company that would likely benefit from the FCC’s abandonment of net neutrality, so that Netflix subscribers could get smoother streaming for its videos when watching via Comcast networks.

So was this all a ruse to make for a more dramatic reveal when it announced its support? As Slate’s Ian Prasad Philbrick reported, Hastings and Netflix are likely doing what’s best for business. And with so many Americans supporting net neutrality, maybe it decided this was.
21:52
How Is New York’s Free College Program Actually Going to Work?
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This article originally appeared in Inside Higher Ed.

Days after opening the application window for its free public college tuition program, New York received more than 21,000 applications.

It looks like a quick clip for a state that had projected Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s signature free tuition program would cover about 22,000 students in its first year. But it’s not yet clear how many applicants will actually receive awards. The number of applicants is also still small in comparison to the roughly 1 million New York students who apply for financial aid in a year.

Cuomo’s office has said officials are thrilled with the number of applications. However, some policy experts worry that the program’s rapid start, short sign-up period, and high level of complexity have combined to create an unpredictable period for the state, its budget, and its public colleges and universities.

New York had received 21,106 Excelsior Scholarship applications as of 7 a.m. Monday, according to the state’s Higher Education Services Corporation. The application period opened June 7 and runs for about six weeks, through July 21.

Few other details were available Tuesday. About a third of the applications came from students who are either already enrolled in the City University of New York system or planning to enroll this fall as freshmen, according to a CUNY spokesman. A large majority of the CUNY applicants were continuing students, he said.

New York residents attending a City University of New York or State University of New York institution can apply for the Excelsior Scholarship, a last-dollar award that pays for tuition costs after other sources of financial aid have been applied. Lawmakers approved the scholarship this spring. It will be phased in over three years, covering families with annual incomes of up to $100,000 this year. It will ultimately cover students from families with incomes of up to $125,000 per year—making an estimated 940,000 families with college-age students eligible.

Some of the state’s community colleges and four-year institutions project enrolling a low number of students who qualify for Excelsior Scholarships in the upcoming academic year. They caution that they’re still waiting to learn exactly how the program will affect enrollment, though.

“Because the scholarship is across the board, it’s a big experiment,” said Kevin Drumm, president of the State University of New York Broome Community College outside of Binghamton. “Right now it looks OK for us, but as with all of us, we don’t know what our actual enrollment and market mix is going to look like.”

SUNY Broome typically enrolls between 4,800 and 5,500 full-time equivalent students annually, Drumm said. It’s difficult for the community college to project next year’s class for several reasons: Its fall application deadline is July 1, and enrollments can vary drastically from week to week over the spring and summer, Drumm said. Three weeks ago, registrations were down year over year. Now tit’s up about 5.5 percent, measuring full-time equivalent students.

The Excelsior Scholarship is unlikely to go to a vast majority of SUNY Broome’s students, however. Since it’s a last-dollar scholarship, it will not be awarded to students who already have their tuition costs covered by other programs, like New York’s generous Tuition Assistance Program. About 65 percent of SUNY Broome students already have their full tuition costs covered, Drumm said.

SUNY Broome looked at a small test batch of freshman applicants and determined 35 percent would be eligible for the Excelsior Scholarship in the upcoming year based on its income requirements. But after factoring in other likely financial aid awards, only about one-tenth of those students would receive an award.

In other words, an estimated 3.5 percent of the freshman class would receive Excelsior Scholarships. But that estimate may not be in line with final numbers, and it could go up in future years as the program’s income ceiling rises and as more potential students become comfortable with attending classes under the free tuition program, Drumm said.

It will take time for students to learn the details of the program, Drumm said. For instance, developmental math and English don’t count toward a requirement that students complete 30 credits per year. Some students aren’t clear on what charges are guaranteed to be covered, either.

“The one thing is people who call the financial aid office and just think they’re going to get a full scholarship,” Drumm said. “They’re not aware it’s just tuition dollars. They’re calling to ask, ‘Will this cover room and board?’ ”

Some four-year institutions are also projecting a relatively low percentage of students qualifying for the free tuition program in its first year. SUNY Potsdam in northern New York estimates about 6 percent of its 4,000 undergraduate students will be eligible to receive funding from the scholarship, according to Rick Miller, executive vice president.

SUNY Potsdam saw inquiries from prospective undergraduates jump sharply this spring. But applications only rose slightly, and enrollments for the fall freshman class are actually tracking down incrementally from last year.

“Our enrollment management staff believes this may be due to families waiting to find out about eligibility for the Excelsior Scholarship first, before making final decisions,” Miller said in an email.

That meshes with the predictions of administrators at SUNY Brockport, west of Rochester.

“I think you’re going to see later movement because of the timing of when everything was announced,” said Robert Wyant, SUNY Brockport’s director of admissions.

The four-year SUNY Brockport enrolls about 7,000 undergraduates. This fall’s freshman class looks like it will be about the same size as last fall’s, when it hit an all-time high of 1,200.

Wyant was not prepared to release any estimates for how many of his institution’s students will receive Excelsior Scholarships.

“It’s still so new,” he said. “It’s hard to gauge it.”

The governor’s office has hailed the number of applications.

“We’re thrilled with the tremendous interest in the Excelsior Scholarship we’ve seen from New Yorkers and look forward to making tuition-free college a reality for middle-class students starting this fall,” a spokeswoman said in a statement.

But outside observers were not so quick with compliments.

From October to December of last year, about 275,000 New Yorkers submitted a Free Application for Federal Student Aid, said Judith Scott-Clayton, an associate professor of economics and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Over a million filed a FAFSA for the entire 2016–17 academic year.

Those numbers are by no means perfect comparisons to Excelsior Scholarship applications—they would include, for example, students attending college in other states and students attending New York’s many private colleges and universities. But they do show the larger scale of total students applying for financial aid in the state.

“Twenty-one thousand is not a lot, in the grand scheme of the number of people in New York going to college,” Scott-Clayton said.

Scott-Clayton also voiced concerns about several other Excelsior Scholarship details, starting with the timing of the application period—which started very soon after lawmakers reached a deal to create the program. A summer application period is completely out of sync from the typical financial aid cycle, she said. Most students have already decided where they will attend college by the summer.

The short time period between application and the start of classes this fall is hard on institutions, too. The scholarship isn’t simply a bucket of state money landing in their laps.

It covers up to $5,500 worth of tuition, but four-year in-state undergraduate tuition at SUNY is typically listed at $6,470 per year. The system is required to provide additional awards to Excelsior Scholarship students in order to cover their entire tuition cost up to $6,470. The 2017–18 state budget included maintenance of effort payments and a repayment to SUNY to cover those costs.

New York appropriated $87 million for the Excelsior Scholarship’s first year. If more than the estimated 22,000 students receive awards, the governor’s office says it is open to adjusting its budget to support the program.

Rolling out the program so quickly is a risk and an administrative burden, Scott-Clayton said.

“It just seems like the best idea would have been for everybody to have more time to figure out how this is going to work,” she said.

Cuomo’s office noted that the free tuition program was only approved by lawmakers this spring. The governor made it a top priority this year, and leaders wanted to have it in place as soon as possible.

Critics have questioned numerous other details about the Excelsior Scholarship.

Some have questioned the program’s 30-credits-completed-per-year requirement and an after-graduation residency requirement with provisions turning past awards into loans if students do not stay in the state for a certain number of years. Many have also pointed out that the scholarship does not cover mandatory fees, which can add up at public institutions and prevent low-income students from being able to enroll or finish their degrees.

At the end of the day, the program’s caveats matter to students and families, Scott-Clayton said.

“I think they absolutely struggle with the complexity,” Scott-Clayton said. “It’s not nearly as simple as it was marketed.”
21:49
Trump’s New Cuba Policy Is Dramatic, Not As Dramatic As He Said
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President Donald Trump announced on Friday a rollback of some of the Obama administration’s policies that loosened restrictions on United States–Cuba economic relations.

"I am canceling the previous administration's completely one-sided deal," he announced to massive applause at an event in Miami in front of Cuban dissidents.

Despite this rhetoric, Trump’s moves appear to be less far-reaching than he described. For example, Trump is maintaining and allowing to be maintained the embassies that Obama opened and allowed to be opened in Havana and Washington. The president is also maintaining policies that allowed Cubans to visit their families on the island and to send money to them. The administration would also allow U.S. companies to continue commercial transportation—such as air flights—from the United States to Cuba.

There were some major changes, though. In a fact sheet about the move, the White House announced that it “enhances travel restrictions to better enforce the statutory ban on United States tourism to Cuba.”

Obama’s policy shift had allowed visitors to travel to the island for educational purposes but loosely enforced that restriction to the point of seeming to allow tourism in practice. Trump’s move promised to limit such travel for nonacademic purposes to approved group travel, saying “self-directed, individual travel permitted by the Obama administration will be prohibited.”

The brunt of the policy, meanwhile, focused on preventing U.S. visitors from spending money in the mostly Cuban-controlled travel industries, such as hotels restaurants.

“Stays at hotels run by the Cuban military conglomerate—many brand-name hotels—will be prohibited, but a senior White House official suggested travelers who had already booked trips would be accommodated,” the Miami Herald reported.

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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was instrumental in drafting Trump’s changes, with help from Miami Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart. Other Cuban-American lawmakers started getting briefed on the policy Thursday.

Trump’s policy will not reinstate wet foot, dry foot, the policy that allowed Cuban immigrants who reached U.S. soil to remain in the country. It will not alter the U.S. trade embargo, which can only be lifted by Congress. And it will not limit travel or money sent by Cuban Americans, as former President George W. Bush did—though fewer Cuban government officials will be allowed to come to the U.S. and receive money than under Obama.

The Los Angeles Times reported that the new policy risked alienating other Latin American countries that had been in favor of more open United States relations with Cuba. From the Times:

The timing and place of Trump’s announcement raised some eyebrows. His vice president and three cabinet secretaries have been hosting leaders of Mexico and Central America in Miami for a two-day conference on immigration and regional prosperity.

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“The optics are not the best,” said a senior international Latin American finance official in Miami for the conference. Like many diplomats, he spoke on condition of anonymity to talk about the Trump administration.

“The entire region welcomed the United States’ normalization of relations with Cuba,” said Cynthia Arnson, director of the Latin America program at the nonpartisan Wilson Center think tank in Washington. "The hardening of policy can only add to the growing distance between Washington and the region’s democracies.”

The Trump White House announced that the Treasury Department had 30 days to issue these new regulations on businesses and travel, and that the policy would not take effect until those changes were finalized, “a process that may take several months.”

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The Grizzled, Stubborn Lawyers Protecting the Environment From Trump
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Environmental groups have spent decades preparing for the likes of Trump.

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How Quantum Mechanics Is Chinese Scientists’ Answer To Cybersecurity Attacks
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A team of Chinese scientists has successfully beat the record for quantum entanglement. But what are the applications of quantum mechanics in addressing cybersecurity attacks as well as information sharing systems?
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How Quantum Mechanics Is Chinese Scientists’ Answer To Cybersecurity Attacks
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A team of Chinese scientists has successfully beat the record for quantum entanglement. But what are the applications of quantum mechanics in addressing cybersecurity attacks as well as information sharing systems?

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‘Doctor Who’ Underrated Friend of the Week: Alpha Centauri
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You know Daleks and Davros and Missy the Master, Angels and Silence hell-bent on disaster. But do you recall the most underrated Doctor Who villains of all? Each week, I will dig into […]

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‘Doctor Who’ Underrated Friend of the Week: Alpha Centauri
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You know Daleks and Davros and Missy the Master, Angels and Silence hell-bent on disaster. But do you recall the most underrated Doctor Who villains of all? Each week, I will dig into […]

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Review: 2017 10.5-inch iPad Pro – pricey, but perfect [Video]
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The 2017 iPad that Apple launched earlier this year was inexpensive, but it was also about dealing with various compromises. The display, for instance, lacked anti-glare and lamination properties of more modern iPads, and the speakers weren’t nearly as good as the latest Apple hardware.

But price can be a compelling feature as well, and the 2017 iPad’s $329 entry point appealed to the masses.

The new iPad Pro, however, concedes nothing to price. It’s an all-in product that cuts no corners. Its starting price is basically double the standard iPad at $649, and can quickly balloon up to entry-level MacBook Pro and iMac territory.

But is the updated iPad Pro, with its newly available 10.5-inch form factor and 120Hz ProMotion display, worth it? Have a look at our hands-on video walkthrough for more details. more…

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Trump Rolling Back Obama Policy on Cuba Travel and Trade Policies
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President Donald Trump announced significant changes to the American Cuba accord from former President Barack Obama that will ban tourist travel to the island, restating the 56-year-old trade embargo along with a wide prohibition on financial transactions with companies controlled by the Communist government's military on Friday, according to Politico. "We now hold the cards. The previous administration's easing of restrictions of travel and trade does not help the Cuban people. They only enrich the Cuban regime," said Trump.“My administration’s policy will be guided by key U.S. national security interests and solidarity with the Cuban people,” the draft of the five-point, eight-page...

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Microsoft Promises To Release Windows Server Updates Semiannually
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Microsoft has announced that Windows Server updates will be more frequent than ever before. Much like its release cycle for Office and Windows 10 updates, Windows Server will also get two major updates per year moving forward.
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Microsoft Promises To Release Windows Server Updates Semiannually
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Microsoft has announced that Windows Server updates will be more frequent than ever before. Much like its release cycle for Office and Windows 10 updates, Windows Server will also get two major updates per year moving forward.

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Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Architect Of German Reunification, Dies At 87
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Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the architect of Germany's 1990 reunification and mentor to Angela Merkel, has died at age 87, his Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) said on Friday, Reuters reported. The mass-selling newspaper Bild reported that Kohl died on Friday morning in his home in Ludwigshafen, in western Germany. "We mourn," the CDU tweeted with a picture of the former chancellor. Germany's longest serving post-war chancellor from 1982 to 1998, Kohl was a driving force behind the introduction of the euro currency, convincing skeptical Germans to give up their cherished deutschemark. An imposing figure who formed a close relationship with French President Francois Mitterrand in...

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Örebroare fick rätt när el-scooter bara gick i 30
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Allmänna reklamationsnämnden (ARN) ger en örebroare rätt mot ett företag som sålt honom en el-scooter.
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Örebroare fick rätt när el-scooter bara gick i 30
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Allmänna reklamationsnämnden (ARN) ger en örebroare rätt mot ett företag som sålt honom en el-scooter.

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Hills tar över Nordea Masters 2018
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Nu är det klart: Hills Golf & Sports Club i Mölndal utanför Göteborg blir värd för Nordea Masters nästa år. Tävlingen avgörs den 16-19 augusti. Johan Edfors, en av delägarna av Hills Golf & Sports Club i Mölndal, puttar på hål 8 under Nordea Masters på Bro Hof Slott utanför Stockholm år 2016. Foto: Fredrik Persson / TT

– Sedan vi tog över ägandet av klubben 2012 har ett av våra mål varit att få arrangera en stortävling likt Nordea Masters, säger klubbens vd Mats Sterner.
Europatourspelaren Johan Edfors är en av klubbens delägare. Han har förädlat och utvecklat nio av de 18 hålen.
Claes Nilsson är director för Golf Scandinavia på Lagardère Sports som äger rättigheterna till tävlingen. Han säger:
– För oss som arrangör är det viktigt att tävlingen roterar mellan Sveriges största orter och bästa banor. Göteborg med omnejd har inte stått som arrangör sedan 1996.
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